BLOGS OF THE DAY: Reality TV 'leads to Sarandon's break-up'

Susan Sarandon is said to have split from her boyfriend Jonathan Bricklin after the pair were filmed for a TV show

Susan Sarandon and her much younger boyfriend, SPiN New York co-founder Jonathan Bricklin, have split after five years following a disagreement over a reality show, Page Six has claimed.

Bricklin, 37, and Sarandon, 68, both appear on Morgan Spurlock’s new AOL series Connected, which centers on six New Yorkers and their partners who were handed cameras to document their lives for six months.

The show, which will air its first episode on March 31, highlights entrepreneur and filmmaker Bricklin’s relationship with Oscar winner Sarandon, but it has surfaced that she grew increasingly annoyed about their private lives being filmed.

Despite not wanting to be a reality star, Sarandon’s name is listed as Bricklin’s girlfriend in a press release for the show.

She is about to start shooting the movie The Death and Life of John F. Donovan with Kathy Bates. Sarandon is an investor in Bricklin’s pingpong franchise. —pagesix.com

Evans to play Beast

Luke Evans last seen as Bard the Bowman in the trilogy The Hobbit, is in negotiations to play the part of the part of the handsome villain in Disney’s upcoming live-action, musical Beauty and the Beast movie.

Bill Condon is directing the movie, which is turning out to be an all-British cast. The film tells the story of a young woman who takes her father’s place as a prisoner in a beast’s castle, only to fall in love with the creature, who turns out to be a prince.

Disney first announced plans to make a live-action Beauty and the Beast film in June 2014 —eonline.com

Powerful graphics card

Nvidia's next major graphics card, the Titan X, saw a surprise unveiling at GDC 2015. Usually ear-marked for the GPU Technology Conference — which will begin on March 17 — the firm’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed the card at Epic Games’ annual State of Unreal press conference.

Described as “the most advanced GPU the world has ever seen”, the Titan X features a 16GB frame buffer — double that of last year's Titan Black — and 8 billion transistors, while it took several thousand man hours to create. —digitalspy.co.uk